Kinkowski, Martin, -1882; Muller, Philomena, -1881; Murder -- New Jersey
While the inquest was going on the wife of the prisoner entered the
room and managed to force her way through the throng. When she turned
her eyes toward her husband she threw up her arms and fell unconscious.
She was carried down stairs to the station, where restoratives were
applied.
In the evening Kenkowsky was taken to the county jail and placed in the
cell formerly occupied by Covert D. Bennett.
In the trunks in Kenkowsky’s possession was found, in addition to a
lot of female clothing, a white shirt. The sleeves from the wrists to
the elbows were spotted with blood; the bosom, too, was marked with
similar stains. On each side of the shirt at about the waist there were
marks of bloody fingers. A pair of buckskin gloves with very small
spots of blood on the back was also found; the palms were soiled, as if
they had been used to handle some rough and dusty article.
THE MURDERED WOMAN’S FUNERAL.
At 11 o’clock on the morning of May 20th, Martin Sanger, an undertaker,
removed the body of Mina Muller from the Hoboken Morgue and placed
it in a plain coffin, which was put in a hearse and driven to
the residence of the deceased woman’s brother, Carl Schmidt, 555
Ninth avenue. On the lid of the coffin was a silver plate with the
inscription: “Mina Muller, died May 3, 1881, aged 34 years.” A shield
bearing the words “Ruhe in Frieden,” was also on the coffin. A wreath
of flowers inwoven with the dead woman’s name rested upon the head of
the coffin, surrounded by bouquets. A throng of Germans, mostly women,
were waiting in front of the house for the arrival of the body. When
the hearse appeared at about two o’clock, the sidewalks for nearly
a block were almost impassable. Vehicles blocked the street in some
places, and many men and boys had climbed upon the elevated railroad
columns. Six carriages containing the husband and brothers of the
deceased woman, and the officers of Lodge No. 70, Knights and Ladies of
Honor, accompanied the hearse to the grave in the Lutheran Cemetery.
Louis Schlisenger, the president of the lodge, read its ritual. Mr.
Muller wept during the service.
Mr. Schlisenger said the Lodge would pay the sister of Mrs. Muller
$1,000. Mrs. Muller joined the Lodge several years ago. She originally
assigned the money she was entitled to as a member to her husband, but
on May 3 she revoked this and assigned it to her sister. When Mrs.
Muller saw Mr. Schlisenger she told him she was going to France, and in
case of her death she desired that her sister should receive the money.
THE PERSON WHO CAUSED KENKOWSKY’S CAPTURE ARRESTED AS AN
ACCOMPLICE.--HOW KENKOWSKY SPENT SUNDAY.
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